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Location: In the Hills of Texas | Is now available as an e-book and will soon be available on a soft copy.
Some of the proceeds of this book goes to the Credit Card Scholarships at SAU.
http://www.amazon.com/Rough-Stock-Southern-Arkansas-University-ebook/dp/B00MART58O/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406913754&sr=1-3-fkmr1&keywords=Rough+Stock+by+Mike+thompson
Thanks Vanessa for posting this on FB.
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Location: Being pushed over the edge, NM | My spoon has been a little too clean for my liking lately, great excuse to stir the pot |
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Location: Wyoming |
As long as none of the money benefits...."them"! |
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Location: Midwest | Such a sad story. Who wrote it?
Eta: are the culprits still in jail?
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I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | barrelracr131 - 2014-08-01 3:54 PM Such a sad story. Who wrote it? Eta: are the culprits still in jail?
A man named Mike Thompson. Don't have a clue who he is. |
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I Really Love Jeans
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Location: North Dakota | I would get this book if it was available on my nook! |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | I remember this popping up on Barrel Horse World back in 2011... All the emotions just flooded back with reading the sample of the book.
Any update on jail time/sentencing or anything like that for the Perps? Anyone have a link? |
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Location: Florida.. | search here but yes they are serving time..ratemyhorse has updates..Vanessa why would that stir the pot ?
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Location: Texas | IRunOnFaith - 2014-08-02 3:03 PM
I remember this popping up on Barrel Horse World back in 2011... All the emotions just flooded back with reading the sample of the book.
Any update on jail time/sentencing or anything like that for the Perps? Anyone have a link?
I am pretty sure that the guy (kid) who did this committed suicide sometime within the last year. |
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Location: lost in missouri | I think because of where Vanessa posted it on FB. lol If she did what I think she did. |
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Location: Heart of Texas | I must have been living under a rock, but what happened? I never heard about this. |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | EnterUp - 2014-08-04 7:34 AM IRunOnFaith - 2014-08-02 3:03 PM I remember this popping up on Barrel Horse World back in 2011... All the emotions just flooded back with reading the sample of the book.
Any update on jail time/sentencing or anything like that for the Perps? Anyone have a link? I am pretty sure that the guy (kid ) who did this committed suicide sometime within the last year.
This horse was killed by Billy Hamilton, Jacy Jackson and her mother, Wendi Cox.....
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Warmblood with Wings
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Location: Florida.. | she must have it mistaken.. mom and billy got over 25 yrs I think.. Ill double check.. The Arkansas Court of Appeals upheld the conviction of Wendi Cox who was sentenced to 60-years in prison for stealing horses  from Southern Arkansas University's rodeo team. The court denied Cox's argument that there wasn't enough evidence to convict her. Cox stated the evidence presented to the jury linking her to the crimes was testimony that was inconsistent or was provided by individuals with motives to lie. Cox's daughter, Jaci Rae Jackson, was involved in the theft and testified against her mother. Cox's former boyfriend, William “Billy” Hamilton, took the stand and testified that Cox developed the plan to steal the horses from the rodeo team, that Cox's daughter was a member of at the time. Five horses, equipment, and a horse trailer were stolen from the SAU rodeo barn. Only four horses made it back to Arkansas after the theft. They were left to die in Oklahoma without food or water, and while not unscathed, they were the lucky ones. Credit Card, the sorrel roping horse, owned by Shaun Smith, was killed by his captors at Cox's direction. The gelding (pictured above) was shot, his throat slit, and his body was cut into pieces so he could be easily moved. Jackson was sentenced to 10-years locked up in Arkansas for her part in the crime. Hamilton is serving a 30-year prison sentence in Arkansas.
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| I wrote the Book. Now available as paperback through Barnes and Noble...must search entire title there: Rough Stock The Southern Arkansas University Horse Theft Case.
I am a former criminal defense attorney and I live and write in Sugar Land, Texas.
No monies at all to those involved. Does support SAU Credit Card Scholarship Fund.
Well documented with investigative information and court transcripts. Also..direct info from secretly recorded conversation with Wendie Cox and contact with witnesses.
This was a landmark case and documents early input from BHW and FB. This case shows the influence that can be brought to bear in Animal Cruelty cases. |
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Location: Florida.. | Author Mike Thompson - 2014-08-04 8:25 PM I wrote the Book. Now available as paperback through Barnes and Noble...must search entire title there: Rough Stock The Southern Arkansas University Horse Theft Case. I am a former criminal defense attorney and I live and write in Sugar Land, Texas. No monies at all to those involved. Does support SAU Credit Card Scholarship Fund. Well documented with investigative information and court transcripts. Also..direct info from secretly recorded conversation with Wendie Cox and contact with witnesses. This was a landmark case and documents early input from BHW and FB. This case shows the influence that can be brought to bear in Animal Cruelty cases.
Going to Purchase it.
This story had so many up and downs.. and here on BHW had so many of us emotionally involved.. nights and days .. I am so glad the story was written and so glad Justice was done for Credit Card and the others as well.. thank you for getting the story out there.. god bless.
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 Mrs. Perks Alive
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Location: Madill Ok | still disgusts me that they would go to this level on a defenseless animal.
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Location: Here | Joleen - 2014-08-04 8:00 PM still disgusts me that they would go to this level on a defenseless animal.
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